Marilyn Monroe: The Biography [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette)

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A biography of the screen legend employs thirty-five thousand formerly sealed documents--letters, diaries, and other papers--to examine virtually every aspect of Monroe's life and death. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078610984X
• ISBN-13: 978-0786109845
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.7 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,366,440 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You will walk with Marilyn, February 6, 2004

By	Steven (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)

This is the most in-depth look at Miss Monroe's life from birth to death. The times and dates that Mr. Spoto was able to resurrect will amaze you, I have never seen so much detail in a book. Once I started reading it I could not put it down much to my wife's dismay. You will actually get to know Norma Jean and Marilyn as well as anyone in her life, a great read!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The truth. Finally., July 8, 2002

By	"karilynx" (in Oz, of course) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)

Donald Spoto must have done a lot of hard work to uncover all this information about Marilyn. In this extensive biography (the best I've read) we learn things that maybe we'd never heard about before.

And, by interviewing people close to Marilyn such as Milton H. Greene and Inez Nelson (?), by reading papers from Marilyn to Lee/Paula Strasberg, Pat Newcomb, and others influential in her life, DS gives us further insight into the life of this beautiful but misunderstood immortal screen goddess.

We also learn the truth about her death. No, Marilyn was not killed by the Kennedys. (Both Bobby and John had alibis, and the information DS presents show no reason why they would want to assassinate her anyway.) And from what DS says, Marilyn was planning to remarry Joe DiMaggio and to her friends it didn't seem that she was planning to kill herself.

His hypothesis is that her suicide may have been accidental, after being fed all those barbituates by different people through all the years, and Dr. Ralph Greenson and her housekeeper, Eunice Murray, may have had a hand in it.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learned so much from it!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate, detailed biography., May 15, 2002

By	"zmart4ever" (san marcos, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marilyn Monroe: The Biography (Paperback)

Donald Spoto bases this book on the facts...not speculations and unseen sources. This is a very detailed account of Marilyn's Life,from the early years spent as a starlet thru her marriages...relationships with famous photographers and acting coaches thru ordinary people...
Marilyn's last days are realistically brought back to Life with a plausible explanation of what really happened the night she died.
One of the best parts of the book is the last chapter "Aftermath: the great deception", where Donald Spoto adresses all the tabloid biographies that sensationalize marilyn's death...the theories and speculations about her involvement with the Kennedys and the mafia and so called "best friends"....
Such as Robert Slatzer and jeanne carmen, to name the worst offenders among them.
I have read all the mayor Biographies on Marilyn and this one for me comes closest to what the truth might be about what happened to marilyn.